Sub-plots

Sarah Iremonger is a multidisciplinary visual artist, based in Co. Cork, Ireland. Using found, created and adapted images and objects, as well as painting, drawing, photography, digital media, neon and video, to investigate ideas about how we understand and navigate ideas of 'Being'. Associations and contexts are mixed up to explore philisophical theories around technology, art, history and nature.

we don’t see things as they are we see things as we
areMarianne Keatingdigital
print on sommerset / Tumbleweed, Bring and Buy, Valhalle - Vorhalle
& Delirious London Stephen Brandesindustrially produced posters / PRAEST a
Translation & Linnaeus
in Higashiyamato CityMick
O’Shea4 channel soundcomposition 4 speakers and 2 CD players

we don’t see things as they are we see things as we
areMarianne Keating screen
print on wall paper / PRAEST a
Translation & Linnaeus
in Higashiyamato CityMick O’Shea4 channel soundcomposition 4
speakers and 2 CD players

we don’t see things as they are we see things as we
areMarianne Keating screen
print on wall paper / Slum Clearence 2Stephen Brandesunique ink-jet print on colered card

The Travels of Eugen von GuérardSarah
Iremongerbook and self, found
print and photograph / we don’t see things as they are we see things as we
areMarianne Keating screen
print on wall paper / PRAEST a
Translation & Linnaeus
in Higashiyamato CityMick O’Shea4 channel soundcomposition 4
speakers and 2 CD players

The Travels of Eugen von GuérardSarah
Iremongerbook and self, found
print and photograph

we don’t see things as they are we see things as we
areMarianne Keatingdigital
print on sommerset / TumbleweedStephen Brandesindustrially produced posters / PRAEST a
Translation & Linnaeus
in Higashiyamato CityMick
O’Shea4 channel soundcomposition 4 speakers and 2 CD players

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

From September 7th until October 7th 2012 Stephen Brandes, Sarah Iremonger,
Marianne Keating
and Mick O'Shea will be exhibiting Sub-plots a cross-disciplinary installation
at Sirius Arts
Centre, Cobh Co.
Cork.

Sub-plots is the result of an exchange which
has been developed between allerArt in Bludenz, Austria and Sirius Arts Centre,
Cobh over the last 3 years and is a response to place and a play on the idea
that what is presented is not the whole 'story' or 'plot'. Working
collaboratively in response to the idea of the 'Alps' (where Bludenz is
situated) each artist has engaged with the subject in their own way, though the
intention is not to have boundaries between the works but to let them migrate
through each other, the vision being a considered arrangement of composites
rather than several visions vying for attention.

Stephen Brandes’s participation in the installation, involves the design and
production of eight new posters ranging in size from A4 to A0. These posters
are suggestive of a golden age of travel, when the previously inaccessible
landscapes of the world were opening up to popular imagination and at the same
time becoming emblematic of nationalistic endeavour.

From research in Australia, Sarah Iremonger has developed new work for this installation, a
mural with text and photographs, based on the work of Austrian/Australian 19th
centuary artist Eugene von Guérard whose work is referenced to create a
disembodied relationship between the landscape of the Alps at Bludenz and von
Guéards landscapes of Australia and in a sense bringing him home.

Marianne Keating has created a text-based work, incorporating the text of
French-Cuban author Anais Nin, “We don’t see things as they are, we see things
as we are” in reference to the title of the exhibition and how each person can
perceive the same event in many different ways. This piece is site-specific,
screen-printed wallpaper, that captures the silhouettes of the Austrian alps
while created through the use of text.

Mick O’Shea’s sound installation of field recordings including spoken
words from the texts used by the other artists at once connects and creates a
disembodied atmosphere to the installation.

This exhibition has come about through and exchange between
allerArt, Bludenz and the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh.

With thanks to Alfred Graf, Hildegard Gunz, allerArt Bludenz
Austria, Broken Hill Art Exchange Inc. Desert Knowledge Australia, Outback
Business Networks, National Parks Australia, rightbrain.ie, South Tipperary
County Council and the Sirius Arts Centre. This project would not have been
possible without the help of Culture Ireland.

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

RückkehrEugen von Gérard Returns Sarah Iremonger paining onwall, shelf, book and framed print (far left) and we dont see thingsas they are we see them as we are Marianne Keating A4 digitalprint on sommerset

November 1811 Johan Joseph Eugen von Guérard was born in Vienna. He studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf 1839-45, and departed for Victoria Australia 1852 from London to look for gold. Establishing himself as a painter in Melbourne 1854, he sailed back to Europe 1882 where he died in London 1901. His work is well known in Australia and unknown in Europe.

we dont see things as they are we see things as we are Marianne
Keating screen printed paper on wall Rückkehr Eugen von GuérardReturns Sarah Iremonger photographs (left) Uppigkeit ist UberholtStephen Brandes industrially printed poster (right)

we dont see things as they are we see things as we are Marianne
Keating screen printed paper on wall (detail)

we dont see things as they are we see things as we are Marianne
Keating screen printed paper on wall (right) Rückkehr Eugen vonGuérard Returns Sarah Iremonger photographs Linnaeus inHigashiyamato CityMick O'Shea four channel sound composition2011 4 speakers and 2 CD players (detail)

we dont see things as they are we see things as we are Marianne
Keating screen printed paper on wall detailRückkehr Eugen vonGuérard Returns Sarah Iremonger photograph

Rückkehr Eugen von Guérard Returns Sarah Iremonger photograph

Linnaeus in Higashiyamato City Mick O'Shea four channel sound
composition 2011 4 speakers and 2 CD players (detail) and Uppigkeit
ist Uberholt (far left) Delerious London (top) A Paridise of Exiles
(right centre) Stephen Brandes industrially printed posters we dont
see things as they are we see them as we are Marianne Keating
A4 digital print on sommerset

Uppigkeit ist UberholtStephen Brandes industrially printed posterswe dont see things as they are we see things as we are Marianne
Keating screen printed paper on wall detail (left)